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2 Sheets-Sheet 1.' E. P. CLARK & A. T. GROSSLEY.

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GASH AND PARCEL CARRIER.

Patented Mar 5, 1889.

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EDSON P. CLARK AND AZRO T. CROSSLEY, OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHU- SETTS.

CASH AND PARCEL CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,018, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed June 6, 1888. Sen'al No. 276,241. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDSON P. CLARK and Azno T. 'CROSSLEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Northampton, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cash and Iarcel Carriers, of which the fol lowing a specification.

This invent-ion relates to devices for the transmission of cash, small parcels, or other articles or commodities; and the invention consists in the construction and combinations of parts, all substantially as will hereinafter more fully appear, and be set forth in the claims, whereby the cash, parcels, &c., m ay be transferred from one place to another and returned, if desired, and also stopped at any point intermediate of the place of starting and the destination, and all so that comparatively heavy loads may be transferred in an easy and positive manner.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a side elevation of the apparai us of the presentinvention with some parts thereof in section and shown as supported by posts or standards. Fig. 2 is an elevation of one end portion of Fig. 1. at right angles thereto, as seen beyond the line if :1; thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one end portion of the apparatus similar to that shown in Fig. l, but provided with suspending means in lieu of the upright supports.

\Vo provide a pair of wheels or rollers, A A, mounted on journals suitably supported, which are provided with grooves or flanges,

whereby the endless cord or wire l3, carried by and between said rollers, is held upon the pe riphery thereof, said cord being sufficiently taut to be made to travel on the turning of one of the rollers, and through its belt-like connection to cause the other roller to rotate. As seen in Figs. 1 and 2, said rollers are hung for rotation on a journal-pin, b, at the upper bifurcated ends of the upright supports or standards 0, each provided with a foot-piece, I

d, whereby to secure it to a counter, door, or other suitable fixed support.

At the lower portion of each standard C is a grooved or flanged sheave, I), mounted on a journal-stud fixed to said standard, and a similar sheave, E, is fixed at the side of each wheel A to rotate as one therewith, and a taut belt or cord connection, f, is passed between and around the said sheaves D E, all so that on the pulling by the hand upon the one end cord in either direction the one roller A is rotated, causing a travel of the cord 13. A tensional saddle, G, embraces the said cord, preferably, about its section, extending between the lower peripheries of the said rollers A. The said saddle is to be formed in such a manner that normall it will have such a grip or frictional contact upon the traveling cord as to move in conjunction therewith under its unimpeded travel, but on its arrival at and against an abutment to permit of its there remaining still in its embrace of said cord, but permitting the comparatively free passage of the cord therethrough, and, as seen in"- Fig. l, the saddle G consists of a suitable length of spring-wire, its intermediate portion bent to form an eye or loop, g, and its end portions wound spirally to form the coils 71 71, which are disposed at slight an gles to each other, so that the upper inner side of the inner ends and the lower inner side of the outer ends of such coils bear upon the cord 13 with aspring-pressurc, said saddle having, as plain, four places of yielding contact upon said cord. From said interme diate eye, q, of the coil-formed saddle shown, or to any form of saddle which maybe advantageousl used, is to be connected a pendant-carrying device, which may consist of a tray or box, as l, or oi? a hook, frame, sling, or other receptacle or appliance in or on and by which the article to be transported may be placed or attached.

Stationary abutment-guards II are placed across the line of the carrying-cord on which the saddle is mounted-here shown as consisting of plates apcrtured or recessed for the unimpeded passage thcrethrough of the said i carrying-cord and supported at the end of bracket-arms m, attached to the standards 0. The said guards H. are preferably on their inl ner faces provided with a thickness, 10, of

felt or similar yielding material, so'that the shock at the time of the impact of the saddle thereagainst will be relieved.

Below the saddle-carrying belt-cord is another cord, wire, or rod, M, h'eld taut and in a parallel relation with said cord B by any suitable supports, the supports for the rollers A A preferably serving, and by providing on the tray, box, or other article-carrying receptacle or appliance a bail made to embrace said cord M for a sliding contact thereon its weight is thereby principally sustained, the connection of such bail with the saddle being only such as will secure 011 the movement of the said saddle a propulsion or drag of the load which is guided upon. the said cord M.

Under certain circumstances where it is not practicable to provide upright supports to rest on the counter or floor, as described, the apparatus may depend from hangers Q, as seen in Fig. 3, the rollers A and sheaves E being hung therein and the hand-belt f depending therefrom, the other sheave, D, resting by its periphery in the lower loop thereof and supporting a stirrup-frame, n, on which a Weight is supported, all so that said pending hand-belt f will be held in suitable tension to secure a rotation of the roller A on being drawn upon.

From the foregoing description and an inspection of the drawings it will be readily apparent that with any article placed in the carryingtray, &c., and pulling on one of the hand-beltsf, the saddle and connected tray will move in conjunction with the said cord .13 until one of the abutment-guards I-l 0bstructs the farther passage of the saddle, when, should the forward movement of said cord 13 be continued in the same direction, it may freely do so without further effect on the saddle; and, further, it is obvious that in any event the travel of the saddle will cease when the travel of the said cord 1:; ceases.

In the event of the use of the saddle shown in Fig. 5, the cord or wire M is not to form such support for the tray or carrier Z as to prevent the carrier and its contents to so hang on the cord B as to have sufficient tractional contact therewith to cause it to move with said cord, as aforesaid, and therefore when said saddle, Fig. 5, is used, or the others above referred to, the apperture in the bail of the carrierl through which the cord M passes is made of suitable length or size vertically to permit the usual deflection, more or less, of the carrying-cord B before the bail will bear on said cord M.

Use of the hereinabove-described apparatus may advantageously be made in restaurants for transmitting articles to and from the tables thereof as well as to the transportation of articles in stores and mercantile establishments Having thus described our invention, What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with a pair of wheels or rollers, A A, and the endless cord B thereon, of a frictional saddle consisting of a length of spring-Wire by its intermediate portion bent to form an eye or loop and its end portions wound spirally to form the coils h h,

said coils being disposed at slight angles to each other, whereby four points of yielding contact upon the cord are insured, and a carrying device suspended from the said eyeloop, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In combination, the standards 0 0, provided with the Wheels and sheaves A E at one end and the sheaves D at the other, the hand-belts f f around said sheaves, the endless cord B on said wheels A, the brackets m m, supported on said standards, and the abutment-guards H H on said brackets, standing in planes across the travel of said endless cord and provided With apertures to permit the travel of said cord therethrough, and a frictional saddle mounted on said endless cord, and an article-carrying appliance supported from said saddle, all substantially as and for the purpose described.

' EDSON P. CLARK.

AZRO T.- CROSSLEY. Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, G. M. CHAMBERLAIN. 

